“The river does not defeat the stone by arguing with it. It keeps moving, and time does the rest”

“Being offended doesn't automatically make you right. Being calm doesn't automatically make you wise”

“I hope someone loves you in the small hours, when you have nothing charming to say and no strength left to pretend.”

“Discipline is choosing your future over the temporary satisfaction of proving someone wrong.”

“You call it distance. I call it the exact amount of space it took to finally hear my own thoughts again.” Took me way too long to learn this one. How are you protecting your peace this week?

“We teach boys not to cry and girls not to be difficult, then wonder why men hide their pain and women hide their anger.”

If someone has to lose their self-respect to keep your love, what exactly are you asking them to save?

Here's an uncomfortable question: if nobody could praise you, envy you, or see your success, would you still want the life you're working so hard to build?

“Bloom quietly; not every beautiful thing needs an audience.”

“Perhaps the mind invents ghosts because it finds unfinished conversations more frightening than empty rooms.”